i liked XIII's music better than XIII-2's. it was more "final fantasy-like"!schoolboy1994
IÂ haven't played XIII-2 yet, so I can't really give an opinion on that, but I didn't think the music in XIII was too bad... I mean... it was nowhere near Uematsu's level of greatness, but then again neither is Hitoshi Sakimoto's music from the tactics games or Final Fantasy XII. Yes Sakimoto's music is extremely fitting to Ivalice, and I couldn't picture an Ivalice game without his music, but all of his stuff REALLY ran together after a while. he composes in a very... I don't want to say 'repetitive' style but his music hardly ever changes from game to game, let alone from track to track. His style is very Formulaic.. that is the word I was looking for, at least that's how it all comes off to me.
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Actually now that I think about it, I think all I can really say about FFXIII is that the music was unmemorable... really the only songs I can even think of the tune too off the top of my head are the battle theme (for obvious reasons, considering how many times you have to listen too it x.x) and the weird, vocalized chocobo song... which I still can't decide if I loved it or hated it. I think it was nice the first time for novelties sake.. but after that it was kind of a mockery of the original tune. I will admit that I disliked the lack of the Final Fantasy Theme, the Prelude, or even the freaking fanfare being ANYWHERE in the game... I guess it was just another way that the company was trying to show it wasn't meant to be a true Final Fantasy game.
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